Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-05

other cnlldren rescued ITOm Cnilu-
stealers, the Staying of the abductOrs
while robbing a house the confession of
the dying Douglas, the death OF Mosher
before he could reveal the whereabouts OF
the child, and the mystery which still
hangs over the case, have invested his
name with an interest worldwide, and
intense, and this interest may be made even
more intense when we take it, rs God may
have designed, after all, az IN illustration
of higher Spiritual truths. We turn
then, to the text.
THE VALUE OF ONE HUMAN SOUL
is the first thought suggested.
The value of deathless soul
Let Christ, the CrucitiCd, explain
For all beside from pole TO pole
Would make the effort but in vain.
Yes, But still we try, we reason, we
compare, in the hope OF glimpse. IL am
TO live forever" you say. Then the
period will come when / shall have lived
longer than the whole aggregate OF human
life. That is if you add EYES life to
Adams and Gains to Ewes, and so on,
until every soul of Adam is included.
Moreover, each soul in eternity will accom-
plish more during it's existence there, than
was accomplished by the whole aggregate
Of all human endeavOr on earth.
Then try 10 think of its wonderful pow
ers even here aud now. How il can charm by
description. Captivate by wit. Thrill and
conquer by argument | remember it is
called Gods breath" Communion with
its maker is more intimate than that Of
any other OF his creatures.
think 100, OF the price God paid toT IT,
OF his infinite efforts to gave it and OF his
grief at its loss But somehow apprehen-
sion is asleep in LIE, and feel like one
gszing at the stars without the glass. /
turn them TO the story OF Charley Ross or
any similar story precisely as the astrono-
mer turns to the telescope.
In Germantown, Pa, little boy Is
seized by two human fcnds and carried
away. A search was at once begun by
parents and friends, aud the whole conn
try, involving IN time, labor and anxiety
money enough 10 span the earth.
We are told that every block III Phila.
delphia was searched, and every boat on
the neighboring rivers, ferries, toll-gates,
railroad stations, hotels, criminals aud
all suspicious persons were Swallowed by
day and by night. States were secured at
both public snd private expense, and all
TO RESTORE A LOST BOY
to his earthly home and friends. Aud now
standing in the very glare of all this dis
play OF mere human sympathy, you tell
us that the
Blessed God can see with equal eyes as Lord
ofall
| A hero perish or a sparrow fan,
| Nations or atoms into nothing hurled,
| And now bubble bust and now world.
Human nature foul and fostering with
selfshness" will yet fit out fleet and
battle with Northern ice in search Of DR..
Kane, or grope for months through the
the savage wilds of Africa as Stanley is
now doing in search of Emin Bey, OF
more heaven and earth with an army ten
million strong in search of one lost boy,
| But the bosom in which all this sympathy
had its birth remains impressive to human
suffering.
Yea, even the oriole singing in the val
ley, hears its song echoed back by the
frOwning cliffs above il, and the lost child,
weeping in that valley, meets quick re-
sponso from the flinty bosom of the rocks,
but none from the bosom of God. No
wonder the heather chose god OF stone
rather than such God as that. They can
find at least an echo.
The weeping, clinging love of the great
Shepherd is another fact suggested by the
parable and illustrated by the abduction
OF Charley Ross.
We readily conceGe that that child
might, by threats and toys and time, be-
come reconciled to his fate and like the
wandering sheep find kind of sordid
pleasure in his aimleSs, reckless life.
But you do not ask Us TO consider that
child stealers or their home could supply
the place of the parents aud the home he
had left behind; or that these parents
could by threats or brides or anything in
heaven or earth, become reconciled to the
fate Of their child, q fate a thousand times
WORSE THAN DEATH ITSELF.
No wonder we read at the time of their
'haggard appearance" ''their hair grow
ing gray" and their age doubling upon
them" And it is through just such earth
ly scenes as this that we look into the face
Of the great Shepherd and behold it with
the Prophet IS 80 moved more than the
face of any man, and his form more than
the sons Of men, simply because he was
God; and the Bible, when it says, that
the invisible things Of God are clearly
seen being understood by the many things
that are made" makes us sure we are
right.
Poor lost ones. Kidnapped and dragged
from your God and your Eden home 10y
the arch child stealer. You do know how
that father and mother must have suffered
and wept over their lost boy, and you do
know il is but reasonable that he who
made the heart of Mrs. Ross, capable of
aching and whitening through grief into
death, must have heart to ache for you.
Not long since young lady in Cincin-
natl gave up her home and her virtue, too,
and went upon the streets. Late one
night, while passing the home of her
heart broken mother, che saw the door ajar
as usual, and rushing in she said: Mother,
why is it you leave the front door open
every night; amt you Sfraid Of thieves9"
The mother raised her face, wet with weep
ing, and said: There may come a night
wheu you will have no place to lay your
head, then remember the door s. ajar at
home. I cannot sleep when you are ont. -
''0h, yes" you say, that was her
mother" But He that has made count-
les millions Of mother hearts to feel % did